Censorship across all social media platforms has gone completely rampant this year, we are basically living in Orwell's 1984

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[–]pyropulse 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We don't need growth for those two ideals, of which are of great value. Once any community reaches a critical value, its quality tends to nosedive rather quickly. Growth is needed, up to a point, in which case it becomes greatly detrimental. - It is like the Chess community; they wanted growth so bad that they were willing to adopt toxic twitch idiots, of which greatly reduced the quality of content on the chess sub. - Why is blind growth desirable? So you can brag and say, "We have THIS MANY MEMBERS, WE MUST BE GOOD!" But after the critical value, size is directly correlated with inferior content (it is easier produce, and due to the sheer numbers, it will be produced at a greater rate than superior content). - When a community is in the 'golden zone,' it tends to produce more superior content than inferior content, precisely due to the fact that only those that have a higher interest and investment are within the community.

[–]Themagicalmidget 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't want it to spike like reddit did poste digg. I do however want others to tell like minded people of this place, as to increase our pool of people engage in discussion and hopefully have some of our ideas on here leak into public discourse. The very fact that neither of us has attacked each other yet at a personal level and instead attacked the argument is a testament to what this place has to offer. Imagine if that site cultural attribute could permeate other large websites like Facebook and Twitter via people seeing the benifits of its practice here? It's value to our society would be immense. Now I understand your concern that quality would nosedive if we had a huge and quick spike in our community and I agree with that statement for the most part. So maybe I should restate my goal as not sudden and fast growth. Rather, consistent moderate levels of growth, that make us large enough to defend from larger sites, trying tactics to shut down our payment processing or web hosting.